IACR 2009 Elections: Detailed Results

From: Christian Cachin
To: Board of Directors 
Subject: Informal Election results
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 16:05:08 +0100  

Here find below the results of the election.


Directors

141 Serge Vaudenay   <-------
134 Tom Berson       <-------
111 David Naccache   <-------
 95 Shai Halevi
 87 Phong Nguyen
 80 Yvo Desmedt
 77 Greg Rose
 69 Josef Pieprzyk
 59 Rei Safavi-Naini
 36 Rene Peralta

As of November 15, 299 ballots were received and authenticated.  Since
ballots continued to arrive beyond that date, the Election Committee 
decided to allow additional ballots to be accepted.  Ballots which 
arrived up to and including November 30 were accepted and authenticated 
bringing the total number of ballots received to 325.  One ballot 
envelope had a printed name but no signature and the committee agreed to 
contact the member and accept the ballot after receiving confirmation of 
authenticity by email.

The set of 325 ballots was opened this afternoon and counted with the 
assistance of IACR member Dan Shumow and former IACR member Peter 
Montgomery.  The unsigned ballot envelope mentioned above was found to 
contain two separate inner envelopes - each appearing to be legitimate 
and to each contain a ballot.  Since there was no indication of which 
one to accept, this pair of ballots was left unopened and disqualified.  
Another outer envelope was found to have a ballot with no inner envelope.  
With its anonymity compromised, it was also disqualified.  This left 323 
inner envelopes which were accepted, anonymized, and opened.

One of these 323 ballots had marks beside 6 of the 10 candidate names 
and was disqualified.  The remaining 322 ballots were counted and 
produced the above results.